Tigris
Ranked 10 of 10 object storage by recommenders
S3-compatible object storage with low-latency, replicated buckets by default that handles small objects well. Critics note round-trip latency varies between backends.
S3-compatible object storage with low-latency, replicated buckets by default that handles small objects well. Critics note round-trip latency varies between backends.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Well-liked by its users
“I'm a delighted customer. In fact I am building a database company on top of Tigris”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3” “Tigris is awesome, although I haven't used it at scale.”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage” “I've heard good things about Tigris.”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “Supertoast Tables” Handles small objects well
“using Tigris which in-lines small writes with metadata”
Comment from 4 Nov 2025 in “Skyshelve: A Python Dictionary in the Cloud” “we have made small objects work well on Tigris”
Comment from 6 Mar 2026 in “Supertoast Tables”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Round-trip latency varies between backends
“Different storage backends (S3, S3 Express, Tigris) have verg different round trip latencies”
Comment from 26 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Turbolite – a SQLite VFS serving sub-250ms cold JOIN queries from S3”
Other object storage people recommend
The four most recommended other object storage, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | 170 | 84 | 67% | 12 | 14 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Cloudflare R2 | 85 | 14 | 86% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Backblaze B2 | 50 | 14 | 78% | 12 | — | Approved |
| AWS S3 | 17 | 7 | 71% | 11 | — | Approved |
| TigrisThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“doesn't expose all FoundationDB operations like transactions, range reads, and get mapped range”
“Tigris is awesome, although I haven't used it at scale.”
“Their main claim to fame is that buckets are low-latency, multi-region and replicated by default”
“We've seen this happen with SourceForge, with Tigris, and now with GitHub.”
“We maintain a page that shows our compatibility with S3 API.”
“I think Tigris will work pretty well with Render.”
“I'm a delighted customer. In fact I am building a database company on top of Tigris”
“Different storage backends (S3, S3 Express, Tigris) have verg different round trip latencies”
“I've heard good things about Tigris.”
“we have made small objects work well on Tigris”
“using Tigris which in-lines small writes with metadata”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.